Contact Information
1205 West Clark St.
M/C 257
Research Interests
Observational Cosmology
Clusters of Galaxies and Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Large Surveys
Data analysis pipelines for surveys, algorithms for data mining
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Research Description
Felipe Menanteau's research interests focus on Observational Cosmology, he uses clusters of galaxies discovered in Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) surveys as signposts to probe the growth of structure in the Universe. He has led the optical/infrared follow-up campaign for the first generation of SZ surveys from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). He also led the discovery of "El Gordo," the most massive cluster known at high redshift. His research also centers on large optical surveys, algorithms for data mining. He led the analysis for the Blanco Cosmology Survey, and is currently working integrating image analysis algorithms for the Dark Energy Suvey (DES) Data Managment at NCSA.
Education
Ph.D (2000), Astronomy, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University,UK
Lic.(1996), Physics, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile
Additional Campus Affiliations
Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Research Associate Professor, Astronomy
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Recent Publications
Golden-Marx, J. B., Zhang, Y., Ogando, R. L. C., Yanny, B., Da Silva Pereira, M. E., Hilton, M., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Brooks, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Carretero, J., Cheng, T. Y., Da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., Everett, S., ... Wiseman, P. (2025). The hierarchical growth of bright central galaxies and intracluster light as traced by the magnitude gap. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 538(2), 622-638. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf277
Lokken, M., van Engelen, A., Aguena, M., Allam, S. S., Anbajagane, D., Bacon, D., Baxter, E., Blazek, J., Bocquet, S., Bond, J. R., Brooks, D., Calabrese, E., Carnero Rosell, A., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Coulton, W. R., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., ... Wollack, E. J. (2025). Superclustering with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Dark Energy Survey. II. Anisotropic Large-scale Coherence in Hot Gas, Galaxies, and Dark Matter. Astrophysical Journal, 982(2), Article 186. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adb622
DES Collaboration (2025). Calibrating the absolute magnitude of type Ia supernovae in nearby galaxies using [O ii] and implications for H0. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 538(2), 782-796. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf266
The DES and SPT Collaborations (2025). Galaxy cluster matter profiles I. Self-similarity, mass calibration, and observable-mass relation validation employing cluster mass posteriors. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 695, Article A49. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451516
Anbajagane, D., Chang, C., Baxter, E. J., Charney, S., Lokken, M., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Alves, O., Amon, A., An, R., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Bacon, D., Battaglia, N., Bechtol, K., Becker, M. R., Benson, B. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bleem, L., Bocquet, S., ... Yanny, B. (2024). Cosmological shocks around galaxy clusters: a coherent investigation with DES, SPT, and ACT. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 9378-9404. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3726